Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-10-07
Town of Butler.
For THE CITIZEN.

berlng as near as can be aScertalned
at present between six and seven
thousand. Located near the center
of the county in beautiful depress
ion, bus elevated where the center of
the town lies so as to make good
drainage. The town is surrounded
by rather low hills, and watered by
the Connoquenessing creek. The
hills in this vicinity abound in stone
and coal, of good quality, natural gas
is found in large quantities, and oil
is produced within short distance,
being good pumping wells and con
tinuing for years at almost the some
status. Butler lies 80 miles north oi
Pittsburg, 40 miles south of Frank
lin, 81 miles northwest of Freeport
and the Allegheny river and near the
same distance east of Beaver and the
Ohio rivers 1t contains q magnif
c.nt Court House lately built at q
cost of about $4,000. Large school
buildings, Churches, business blocks,
Orphans Home, two large Touring
mills, wooden factory, machine shops,
immense Glass Works almost finish.
ed, which will cover when completed
from S to 10 acres of ground and will
employ several hundred workmen
Bottle works are now running
These works have the advantage ol
competing of railroads which have
their junction here viz. The P &
W. running from Bradford and hav-
log through line to Chicago. The
S. & A. forming direct line with
the west, northwest, and southwest
The Penn r r. running to Phil'a &
New York City, making the town Of
Butler good center for trade and
manufacture, fair market and being
almost in direct line from our West.
ern markets to our large shipping
ports and cities in the east, and sur.
rounded by at least fairly produc'
tive country, tend to make living
cheap and the way to industrial sue.
cess easy and sure.
BUTLER COUNTY.
Butler County has an area of about
1856 square miles, bounded, north by
Venaugo County, east by Armstrong
County, extending to the Allegheny
river at its north and southeast cor
ners, south by Allegheny County, its
western boundary being Beaver,
Lawrence. and Mercer Counties. 1t
is ABOUT 81 miles in length north and
south, bv "a miles in width and con-
tains population estimated at the
present time at about 60 thousand.
The surface ofthe County is undula-
ting, the hills in no part of the Coun-
ty reaching any great altitude, the land
with little exception being adapted to
tillage, watered by Slipperyrock,
Muddy creek, Compromising. Big
and Little Buffalo, Big and Little
Bear creek, Bull creek, Thorn creek,
Glade Run, Breakneck, Silver creek,
Yellow creek, and other smaller
streams. While in this County there
is no greatextent of valley land yet q
broad and beautiful valley has been
carved out by the ConnoqueEessing
in the vicinity IF Harmony and Ze-
lienople, and the soil is rich and
strong, yielding large increase to the
husbandman and fair to the eye of
him who admires it for its beauty
alone. The soil along Muddy creek
and Slipperyrock is in some places o
rich sandy loan, forming excellent
meadow land with an ont crop along
the hillsides Of limestone, augment
ing the producing power of the soil
In short the soil of the County is of
good average quality as compared
with the Counties of Western Penn'a.
Wheat, oats and other cereals and
grasses grow here with good SUCCESS:
milk, potatoes, hay, aid apples have
been shipped to other parts of the
country to q considerable extent.
The cheapness of farm products
makes the cos; Of living low, conpar-
cd with some of the other surround
ing oil and gas counties. Prices of
real estate and lots have never reached
the exorbitant figures of other manu-.
featuring eealres less advantageous
for commerce or manufacture Prob.
ably no location in our State il more
beautifully situated or better adapted
to promote the health and happiness
Of the citizen than the town of But.
ler, surrounded by hills, pure water,
and free from malaria. and furnished
within the last few years with means
for affording labor ior hundreds OF
working men, who are coming into
the town, increasing the population.
This fact alone gives impetus to our
manufacturing enterprises. The i'm
mense Glass Works covering acres of
ground, promising to be the largest